Will Durant Quotes
The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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This Court now concludes that independent political expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.
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I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.
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I have a huge impact with young girls. Young women. That's my demographic.
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Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.
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It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.
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To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
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I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.
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Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Just when they thought I was done for the winter, I came out stuntin I'm such a big spender.
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The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.
